by heart

See also: byheart

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /baɪ ˈhɑːt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /baɪ ˈhɑɹt/
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Prepositional phrase

(idiomatic) From unaided memory and in full detail.
He used to live in that town, and he still knows all the streets by heart.
- 1906, The Monthly Musical Record‎, volume 36, page 55:
  You should play over all the pieces you know by heart at least once a month or oftener with the printed copies before you: or all sorts of wrong notes may creep in, and you will be leaving out some crescendo, or rallentando, or sforzato.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
  
  None of the other animals on the farm could get further than the letter A. It was also found that the stupider animals, such as the sheep, hens, and ducks, were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart.

Hyponyms

by rote (usually pejorative)

Derived terms

byheart

Translations

knowing completely

Armenian: անգիր (hy) (angir)
Breton: dindan eñvor (br), dre eñvor
Bulgarian: наизу́ст (bg) (naizúst)
Catalan: de cor, de memòria
Chinese:
Mandarin: 靠記憶, 靠记忆 (kào jìyì)
Czech: zpaměti (cs), nazpaměť (cs)
Dalmatian: inamiant
Danish: udenad
Dutch: uit het hoofd, van buiten
Esperanto: parkere (eo)
Faroese: uttanat
Finnish: ulkoa (fi)
French: par cœur (fr)
Georgian: ზეპირად (zeṗirad)
German: auswendig (de)
Greek: απέξω (el) (apéxo)
Hebrew: בעל-פה‎ (be'al-pé)
Hungarian: kívülről (hu), fejből, betéve
Icelandic: utanað, utanbókar
Ido: memore (io)
Italian: a memoria

Japanese: 暗記して (ja) (あんきして, anki-shite), 空で (そらで, sora-de)
Korean: 암기하다 (ko) (amgihada)
Kurdish: ji ber (ku), ezber (ku)
Latin: memoriter
Lithuanian: mintinai
Macedonian: напамет (napamet), наизуст (naizust)
Norman: par tchoeu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: utenat (no)

Nynorsk: utanåt, utanboks
Persian: از بر‎ (fa) (az bar), از حفظ‎ (az hefz)
Polish: na pamięć (pl)
Portuguese: de cor (pt), de memória, na ponta da língua
Russian: наизу́сть (ru) (naizústʹ), на па́мять (ru) (na pámjatʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: air teangaidh
Serbo-Croatian: napamet (sh)
Slovak: naspamäť, spamäti
Spanish: de memoria
Swedish: utantill (sv)
Turkish: ezbere (tr), ezberden (tr)
Westrobothnian: uta

References

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